Stigmata (film)
Stigmata | |
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Frank Mancuso, Jr. | |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Elia Cmiral |
Production company | FGM Entertainment |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Countries | |
Languages | Aramaic[3] English Portuguese |
Budget | $29 million[4] |
Box office | $89.4 million[4] |
Stigmata is a 1999
The film was produced by FGM Entertainment and was released on September 10, 1999. It grossed $18.3 million during its opening weekend and $89.4 million worldwide, against a budget of $29 million.[5] It received generally negative reviews and has a 22% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[6] Despite its negative reviews, Stigmata earned more than triple its budget.
Plot
In the
Shortly afterward, Frankie is attacked by an unseen force while bathing, and receives two deep wounds on her wrists. As the wounds are treated, doctors cannot find the cause. Frankie asks a priest if he is Andrew Kiernan, the scientist, priest and investigator. When the priest says he is Father Derning, the lights in the train flash and Frankie is whipped from behind by an unseen force. While Frankie is hospitalized again, the priest sends security tapes showing the attack to the Vatican, and Andrew is sent to investigate.
Andrew interviews Frankie, believing her wounds may also be stigmata. When she tells him she is an
Andrew takes Frankie to Father Derning's church, and the Vatican translates what she was yelling in
Andrew goes to Frankie's apartment to find the wall she wrote on painted over, and Frankie attempts to seduce him. When Andrew rejects her, she attacks him and denounces his beliefs in a male voice, ending with Frankie levitating off the bed, crying tears of blood. Houseman and Dario arrive with Derning and take Frankie to another church, sending Andrew to Derning's. At Derning's church, Andrew meets Petrocelli, who tells him the words Frankie has been writing are part of a document found outside Jerusalem they believed to be a gospel in the exact words of Jesus. Petrocelli, Delmonico and Alameida were assigned to translate it, but Houseman ordered them to stop. Alameida refused and stole the document to continue translating it alone, having been excommunicated by Houseman.
Petrocelli tells Andrew that the document was Jesus telling his disciples that the
Text just before the end credits describes the discovery of the Gospel of Thomas, stating that the Catholic Church refuses to recognize the document as a gospel and considers it heresy.
Cast
- Patricia Arquette as Frankie Paige
- Gabriel Byrne as Father Andrew Kiernan
- Jonathan Pryce as Cardinal Daniel Houseman
- Nia Long as Donna Chadway
- Rade Šerbedžija as Marion Petrocelli
- Enrico Colantoni as Father Dario
- Jack Donner as Father Paulo Alameida
- Thomas Kopache as Father Durning
- Dick Latessa as Father Gianni Delmonico
- Portia de Rossi as Jennifer Kelliho
- Patrick Muldoon as Steven
- Ann Cusack as Dr. Reston
Production
An international co-production film between The United States and Mexico. Development was first announced in January 1998, when Frank Mancuso Jr. announced his intention to produce a supernatural thriller helmed by Rupert Wainwright.[7]
Reception
Box office
Stigmata, produced on a $29 million budget, premièred at the box office in the number one position, earning $18.3 million in its first weekend, becoming the first film in five weekends to outgross The Sixth Sense at the box office. In the United States, Stigmata earned $50,046,268. Internationally the film earned $39,400,000 for a total worldwide gross $89,446,268.[4]
Critical response
The film received poor reviews. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 22% approval rating, based on 91 reviews (20 positive, 71 negative). The website's consensus reads, "The story is unconvincing and the acting is weak."[6]
Release
References
- ^ "Stigmata". kinorium.com. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
- ^ "Stigmata (1999)". abandomoviez.net. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
- ^ "Release". BFI Film & TV Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 18, 2009. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Stigmata". Box Office Mojo.
- ^ "Stigmata". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
- ^ a b "Stigmata". Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^ "Mancuso Jr. reups at MGM for 5 years". Variety. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (January 1, 1999). "Stigmata". RogerEbert.com.
- ^ "'Stigmata' Blu-ray details".
External links
- Stigmata at IMDb
- Stigmata at AllMovie
- Stigmata at Box Office Mojo
- Stigmata at Rotten Tomatoes